%0 Journal Article
%T The Teaching of Psychology through learning activities from a multidisciplinary approach: increasing motivation and performance La ense anza de la Psicolog赤a a trav谷s de actividades desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar: aumento de la motivaci車n y rendimiento
%A Jos谷 A. Muela
%A Ana Garc赤a-Le車n
%A Jos谷 M. Augusto
%A Esther L車pez-Zafra
%J European Journal of Education and Psychology
%D 2010
%I CENFINT
%X Learning activities may affect specific aspects of certain disciplines and an effort to increase motivation in our students is needed. This study deals with an activity in which students handle content close to two Psychology subjects (Personality and Social Psychology). The main aim was to relate concepts that are approach from the two disciplines by different, but similar, points of view and to increase students＊ motivation by their active implication in a learning activity. Students conducted real research which managed theoretical content of these two courses. Two groups of students (experimental and control) participated in this study (N=286). Our results show a significant increase of the participants in this experiment in academic performance in both courses. Participants in this activity have achieved better final grades than their non-participant peers (in both disciplines), and also improved their own performance, enhancing their grades in comparison with the ones they obtained in the first semester. Finally, our results show that there is an increase in performance with these methodologies, even when the subjective assessment of students about their motivation is not so positive. Las actividades de aprendizaje en la ense anza superior deben tener en cuenta que puede afectar a m芍s de una disciplina y que es importante incrementar tanto la motivaci車n como el rendimiento. Nuestro trabajo consisti車 en un experimento en el que se integraban conocimientos de dos materias (Psicolog赤a de la Personalidad y Psicolog赤a Social). Estas materias abordan algunos conceptos comunes y se pretendi車 aumentar la motivaci車n de los alumnos implic芍ndolos activamente en esta actividad que consisti車 en un experimento real. Participaron dos grupos (experimental y control) (N=286). Nuestros resultados muestran un incremento significativo en el rendimiento en las dos materias para los alumnos del grupo experimental. Adem芍s, consiguieron mejores notas e incrementaron su rendimiento, incluso aunque su evaluaci車n subjetiva sobre su motivaci車n no fuera tan positiva.
%K Entrenamiento en habilidades
%K actividad de aprendizaje
%K motivaci車n
%K rendimiento.
%U http://www.ejep.es/index.php/journal/article/view/44